I've spent the day in Bridge re-organizing my back catalog. I'm trying
achieve a consistent naming scheme that identifies the camera and keeps
all the files in the sequence they were taken - e.g. istD_nnnnn.xxx,
K10D_nnnn.xxx ... five digits allows for when the shutter goes past
9999. I preserve the original file name when I do a batch rename in Bridge.
IIRC, I got my K10D in late March 2007 and didn't notice the date was
wrong (527 days 5 hours) until sometime in August. Even though I reset
the date, I actually did not get it set completely correctly until October.
It makes me crazy because I organize in folders by date
"yyyymmdd_location-job_name", and having the wrong date in the EXIF
makes it very difficult to figure out what the date should be for the
folder.
Finally figured out how to get Exiftool to work and what arguments to
pass to it so the date would be adjusted correctly. Tested it out on
copies in a different folder until I was sure the correction was getting
the right date.
Now "Date Created" shows up correctly in Bridge Metadata, but the "Date
File Modified" is still wrong, showing the original screwed up date.
Eventually I'll get that one figured out too.
Just realized I have to 2005 and fix the ist-D files because I forgot to
change the Time-Zone when I got home from Iraq and Iraq is about 11
hours ahead. IIRC, I finally noticed that some time in 2006.
Made sure I checked and set all the dates/times today ... *istD was off
by an hour (not set to daylight time) and K10D was 53 min fast - K20D
was 1 min fast. All had the correct time zone.
I still need to go back and start key-wording my back catalog. I'm
expecting to pick up Lightroom 3 this next semester. Would it be better
to key-word with that or to continue in Bridge.
Will Lightroom update the sidecar files I've already created using
Bridge, or does it keep it's own key-word list?
Or, looking at it from the other direction, will Bridge see the
key-words that Lightroom adds?
Got out to shoot yesterday, and I'll probably get out again this evening.
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